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marcgg
marcgg

Reputation: 66505

How to use localization with RubyMotion?

I think it's not possible to use I18n, so what's the best approach?

From what I see you can use Bubblewrap as so:

# Localization (using NSBundle.mainBundle.localizedStringForKey):
BubbleWrap.localized_string(:foo, 'fallback')
=> "fallback"

But there is no explanations on how to setup the translation keys and is just a mapping of:

NSBundle.mainBundle.localizedStringForKey(key, value:value, table:nil)

... so I'm not sure what to do with it.

Bubblewrap also provides a App.current_locale method, but this returns an object that seems unusable as far as I can understand.

So, how can I localize my RubyMotion application, or at least get the user's locale to create my own localization system.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 745

Answers (4)

dgilperez
dgilperez

Reputation: 10796

I18n is now available to Rubymotion with this wrapper gem: motion-i18n.

Upvotes: 0

Wejn
Wejn

Reputation: 356

The way to use it is beatifully explained in colinta's blogpost.

There's also GitHub gist by chsh that shows a reasonable example.

But to answer in detail:

Create resources/en.lproj/Localizable.strings with content:

/* This is a sample greeting for my app */
"GREETING" = "Hello World!";

(and similarly for other languages: cs.lproj, de.lproj, ...).

Then you can use sugarcube's localized support: "HELLO"._ which will result in "Hello World!" for en locale and GREETING for any locale with corresponding lproj file missing. You can find more detail in sugarcube's docs linked above.

You could most likely also use the BubbleWrap's localized_string support: BW.localized_string("GREETING", "fallback"). I can't vouch for it as I haven't tested it myself, though.

Upvotes: 1

docstun
docstun

Reputation: 90

We have just released motion-phrase a gem for RubyMotion that implements a localization workflow using PhraseApp. It is a quite different approach but comes with a lot of advantages.

Upvotes: -2

siuying
siuying

Reputation: 1499

RubyMotion use CocoaTouch API. You can check apple documentation on localization https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/LoadingResources/Strings/Strings.html

Upvotes: 2

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